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THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Robert Preston narrates "The Sun Country," a special on Texas. Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, with New Mexican (by adoption) Greer Garson and Oklahoman (by birth) Pamela Tiffin pointing out some of the sights...
Wyler gets results by demanding them-over and over and over again. Actors assigned to him describe the experience as "living in the torture chamber." Greer Garson tried to soften him up in advance by sending him a pair of velvet gloves. Bette Davis got so mad she walked off the set for a week. Olivia de Havilland all but heaved a suitcase at Wyler after he ordered the umpteenth take of the same scene; yet all these films were hits. "I've resisted the temptation of being a good fellow," says Wyler, 62. "I don't care...
...Among them: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Greer Garson, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan, Burl Ives, Hugh Griffith, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston...
...have become a favorite investors' haven. Other investors have discovered both the profit and joys of horse breeding, attracted by last year's 23% increase in the auction price of racing colts. Cattle managing has also become popular; it boasts such notable investors as Jack Benny, Greer Garson and Advertising Executive Marion Harper, all of whom seek the average 30% -40% annual return after taxes. The net runs high because earnings from sales of herds are taxed as capital gains at a top of 25%, and investors can write off the expense of raising herds against their income...
...great big, beautiful neutron breeder. The Stakhanovites sweated for the sake of the socialist society. But the scientist in this picture labors, and even accepts a fatal dose of radiation, for the sweet sake of science-because, as he proclaims, "You cannot stop an idea!" Just like Greer Garson in Madame Curie...